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A Glossary of Australian Agricultural and Farm Business Terms
| Quadruple bottom line |
A business planning approach that tries to achieve a
balance between goals - profit, environment, people and culture |
| Quality Number |
Number based on crimp frequency in
a wool sample and related to the expected spinning performance of wools
of a certain crimp frequency, i.e. 70s, 64s, 60s, etc. Also called
count or spinning count. |
| Quarantine |
Confinement for a period of time
for the containment and eradication of exotic diseases. |
| Queensland
Gate |
A homemade, temporary or permanent
gate made by slinging wire or netting in an opening and fixing it with
battens and various hitches. Also called a 'Bogan gate', a 'running
gate', a 'machinery gate' or 'cocky's gate' (Taranaki gate in New
Zealand). |
| Queensland Hitch |
A method of tying rails to posts in
fence or yard construction. The wire is doubled in a hair-pin style,
then twisted around the timber. This provides a simple, but very strong
means of fastening. |
| Quick
Ratio (Acid Test Ratio, Sudden Death Ratio) |
The ratio of current assets which
are readily cashed, to current
liabilities. NB There is always scope for argument in the
choice of current assets to exclude. |
| Quiescence |
A temporary resting phase
characterised by reduced activity, inactivity or cessation of
development. |
| Quota |
Dairy farmer's share of a market
restricted by regulation e.g. the premium-priced liquid milk
market. Abolished under deregulation |
| Quota Exchange |
Where premium-priced liquid milk
market quota can be traded (bought or sold) as 4-weekly lots of which
there are thirteen in the year. Abolished under deregulation |
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